4 traffickers arrested with 6 ivory tusks
Gabon, 11 Apr 2018
4 traffickers arrested in the North of the country with 6 ivory tusks. One of them is Malian worker of a logging company, another, an Ivorian, is a security guard of the same logging company. Three of them were arrested in their vehicle during an attempt to sell 4 tusks. After the arrest upon arriving to the police station they denounced the fourth trafficker, who was swiftly arrested in his house with two more ivory tusks. He had been leading a network of poachers, supplying him ivory for many years.